Learn to design a website using the popular blogging program, WordPress. Follow along with veteran web designer, Matt Hackney, as he creates a racing website from scratch that is simple enough for anyone to do. In part 5 of this tutorial, learn how to further tweak your SEO in the pictures on your page. Also learn how to add links to your pictures, resize your banner, and relearn old skills.
Presented by SEO Expert Steve Wiideman, this tutorial is a walk-through of how one might use the various options within the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin, including: Customizing post titles and meta descriptions Robots Meta configuration Canonical URL specifications Setting up breadcrumbs Cleaning up permalinks Configuring XML sitemaps RSS enhancements Editing your robots.txt and .htaccess Cleaning up the head section Set this up yourself, or have us do it for you beginning mid-May at www.businessbloginstaller.com
@abhisheksuraj I would recommend using Hostgator: (my affiliate id = krashnik)
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this is cool. thanks… i have a question for you, since you look like an expert in the field. The question is a bit out of league, I want to make a website for stock market related posts (I will be posting text, images and possibly pdf’s to download). I found that there are so many ‘hosting’ options available. Which service provider(s) do you think are the best?
good stuff,.. keep em comin’ Thank you!
Thanks so much Steve, this tutorial was just what I needed to get started! take a look at my site: torbenscharling dot c o m
The explanation was great but i recommend that you give the information about the page at the begining so we don’t have to wait to the end to know it. Thanks
Excellent tutorial. I’m a complete newbie to wordpress and was able to follow this easily, thank you.
Could you suggest a good theme for me to use for the best SEO?
Loved your tutorial but when I went to your website I got lost. Can’t find anything about SEO. Guess I’m just a luddite.
Latest Yoast plugin has changed a bit but this video is still VERY relevant! Thank you so much… I had no idea I left so many useful settings in the disabled-bin. Thank you!
Very helpful video, Steve! You walked us through Yoast WordPress SEO plug-in and made it an ease for a beginner like myself to follow along. Thanks for sharing the post! This was awesome!
Very nice plugin and presentation., Thank you
hi, i installed the plug-in but some points are missing. for example the xml sitemap option. can somebody help me?
Excellent video Steve. I have only one question. Everyone talks about how great the Thesis theme is for SEO. Would you recommend that I install the yoast plugin on a Thesis supported WordPress blog?
Thanks,
Craig
Fantastically simple. Thanks steve
Thanks for this Steve, this was very helpful!
Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the walk-through. I went to the website. It says account suspended???
really a good explanation, thanks a lot.
thank you so much for putting this together!!! I don’t need the installer at the moment but is sounds like a great tool to investigate.
Thanks man.. BTW, why your site has been Suspended?
Joost de Valk should have done a video like this you have done. Excellent video! Thank you.
thank you
sweet tut
Hey Great tutorial, very clear. I also have to mention that you have a very clear voice for this sort of presentation and a very good pace as well. I was not bored or turned off to hear you carry on. On some other videos it is very difficult to sit and listen to the person. I know this is not a technical comment, but a very important one, I think.
Cheers,
Michael
Thank you for this walk-through. I am looking forward to the vid you make on the .html extension for posts AND pages (as my site that I am developing will be 95% pages). Again, thanks. ~doctorEQ
This information needs to be updated as there is a newer version out and the video does not match up with the current Yoast release.
Excellent – many thanks for this excellent resource. Please can you refer to the following:
Steve’s Top WordPress SEO Plugins
by SEO Expert on 08/31/09 at 6:24 am
seoexpert.tv/seo-best-practices/top-wordpress-seo-plugins.html
Question:
Now that Yoast is with us which of your 2009 top plugins are still extant? Obviously a number of those listed are now redundant?
Very useful video. Helped a lot in setting up the plugin for my blog. Thanks.
@shendison Thanks for the awesome feedback! As I recall, pulling elements from the copy to use in title and meta data creates a higher keyword density for the content being repeated and does little for the target keyword theme.
If you perform a Google search for “title tag principles”, you’ll notice that I modified the action, value proposition (“that improve SEO ranking”) and hand-wrote the title and meta description.
There’s nothing greater than unique title and meta data for higher CTR.
I should add that I do agree with you that writing unique titles and descriptions is FAR BETTER, but for the legions of lazy folks out there, this will ensure that something will be added for the desc tag when they happen to “forget”… Again, nice job on the vid…